Cannon’s Fish Market Closes Permanently

Closed since August, Cannon’s Fish Market
on 31st Street made the suspected official: it will
shut down permanently.

Cannon’s owner Bobby Moore contacted
Carol Joynt of Washingtonian Magazine “to
announce he’s decided to close the business for
good and lease the space to his 31st Street nextdoor
neighbor, Il Canale Italian restaurant,” Joynt
reported last week.

According to Washingtonian, “Moore, 47,
says the ‘medical reasons’ are simple wear and
tear on his body. ‘I’ve been working there since
I was 12, working on concrete, wet floors, lifting
fish every day of my life ...’ he says. ‘My back
is killing me. I had surgery a few years ago for
herniated disks, two knee surgeries, [and] I had
my right hip replaced seven years ago. It’s been
giving me problems again, and my other hip is
shot.’ He says he sat down to discuss it with his
family recently, and they decided to ‘close [the
shop] altogether.’ “